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CVE-2021-21069

Published: Mar 12, 2021

Modified: Apr 23, 2025

PUBLISHED

CVSS v3.0

7.8

HIGH

Description

Adobe Creative Cloud Desktop Application version 5.3 (and earlier) is affected by a local privilege escalation vulnerability that could allow an attacker to call functions against the installer to perform high privileged actions. Exploitation of this issue does not require user interaction.

VendorProductVersions

Adobe

Creative Cloud (desktop component)

affected
unspecified - <= 5.3.1.470a
affected
unspecified - <= None

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-20

CVSS v3.0 Details

CVSS v3.0 Vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack Vector

Local

Attack Complexity

Low

Privileges Required

Low

User Interaction

None

Scope

Unchanged

Confidentiality

High

Integrity

High

Availability

High

References

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